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A handful of quick thoughts on Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian)
There’s a title card on the front of Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian) indicating that the film — a portrait of the relationship between a Native American war veteran...
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Gremlins 2 is just one of eighteen amazing films that will be playing at...
The line-up for this year’s Film4 Summer Screen — the world’s only properly good outdoor film program — has just been announced and as ever, it’s awash with brilliance. Better yet, this year’s season...
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A journey around Cannes with the two biggest twats in town
If you’re not already familiar with the man, the myth, the legend that is James ‘Jimmy’ Toback, take a quick look around the internet. The blogosphere is awash with tales of the 69-year-old Black and...
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The ten greatest lines from James Franco’s accent-happy As I Lay Dying
“Wherduhgurdah dungahd durgah frin chuhnnin.” “Mah grirdinun gurhn feridirfun, ger jerminfur.” “Sermin uhn perriden — prifinoud snigifidden.” “Ahsarw ferperder Dewey Dell ardergaw sherfinur,...
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Perhaps my favourite film of the Cannes Film Festival thus far (although the new Coen Brothers is blates a masterwork) is Alain Guiraudie’s erotic-drama-cum-murder-mystery Stranger by the Lake — where...
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I can’t work out if my dislike of Will Forte is irrational or not
Alexander Payne truly is the Benjamin Button of American indie filmmakers, rapidly declining in maturity as the years (and Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars) pile up. A decade and a half ago, he was...
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The ‘real sex’ issue
a There’s not a year goes by without a controversy surrounding ‘real sex’ hitting the Cannes Film Festival, where ‘real sex’ here means actual, factual sexual activity between two actors rather than...
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Dear Hollywood, give us a fucking break. Signed, London.
March — G.I. Joe: Retaliation May — Star Trek Into Darkness June — World War Z October — Thor: The Dark World
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You’re all invited to drink free booze and admire this and 16 other lovely...
Illustration magus Hattie Stewart is just one of seventeen artists contributing to Print Club London‘s upcoming Summer Screen show, in association with the outdoor screening extravaganza of the same...
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The ten most selfless acts committed by the protagonist of Fruitvale Station
A Grand Jury Prize winner earlier this year at Sundance, Fruitvale Station sees Ultra Culture favourite Michael B. Jordan (Steve from Chronicle, Wallace from The Wire) play Oscar Grant, a young...
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‘Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer’ and the art of saying nothing loudly.
Like so many key figures in the campaign for freedom of speech, Russian feminist punk collective Pussy Riot rarely say anything of much interest. Of the many potent political sentiments in their...
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Making unreasonable demands of documentary at Sheffield Doc/Fest
For what’s best described as a long weekend, I’ve been lording it about at Sheffield Doc/Fest — a haven for documentary lovers and fans of linguistic contraction alike in Britain’s third most populous...
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One person who reads this will win a 35mm movie camera. The rest of you just...
Netflix has proved such a world-beater since it launched in the UK last year that I can’t help but feel sorry for its competitors, even if the words ‘heat’, ‘stand’, ‘can’t’ and ‘kitchen’ come to mind...
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Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about aspect ratios (but were too cool...
I love aspect ratios, and care deeply for their wellbeing. I find myself angry when they’re mistreated, frustrated when they’re overlooked, and delighted when they’re allowed to come into their own....
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Watch Melissa Joan Hart beat a rapist to death with a baseball bat in ‘Nine...
Earlier this year, Melissa Joan Hart cancelled her Kickstarter project Darci’s Walk of Shame three weeks into its run, having reached just 2.5% of her gargantuan $2 million funding goal. “I need your...
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I went to a pub quiz organised by Pixar last night…
… and every single monitor was showing this PowerPoint presentation in the wrong aspect ratio. It was more painful than Toy Story 3.
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Five things it would be nice to see in a movie like Pacific Rim
A joke. There was a single moment of laughter during the screening of Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim I attended last Friday, and that came with the introduction of a character played by Ron Perlman....
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This new poster for Spike Lee’s Oldboy remake gets sillier the more of it you...
First impressions: It’s a pretty strong tagline, especially held up against the one that accompanied the 2003 South Korean original — ’15 years forced in a cell, only 5 days given to seek revenge’ —...
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Let’s take a look at the level of pun on display in these ‘Planes’ character...
Has it really been two years since Cars 2 exploded onto our screens in a blaze of critical apathy? If you’re anything like me, you’ve spent the intervening 24 months longing for a return to ‘the world...
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7 things I learned by reading the BBFC’s annual report this morning
Each summer, the good (and incomparably whimsical) people over at the British Board of Film Certification release their annual report, a 100-page document outlining their ongoing struggle to cope with...
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